Sunday, February 16, 2014

Tequila Girls and Psycho Daddies at Tucken (Review)

Tequila Girls and Psycho Daddies
at Tucken, Broder Tuck, StockholmPsycho Daddies
Up until a few weeks ago I didn´t knew about Psycho Daddies. As they were
booked at the Tucken club, I had to do my homework and found a bunch of aged
original 77 punks doing a very personal thing with a flavor of The
Professionals, Ramones and Angelic Upstarts (the last, did they claim, they
never heard). Catchy tunes that got your attention real fast, not least with
their quirky twist in the lyrics. Live they were a bit more raw and rough, than
on record. In which I saw nothing wrong.
The new, unrecorded song, “Working for the Stasi” was both their best as well
as funny and reached way beyond the first funny impression. A future possible
hit?
They ended with a surprise. As guitarist
David was an original member in Bitch Boys and wrote “Jag hatar dig”
(I Hate You), the Bitch Boys singer Frobbe was invited on stage (well almost,
he was more or less running around like a punk rock idiot ala Iggy Pop as he
used to, in the crowd the whole song) . To sing that old Bitch Boys tune. Yesterday´s
ass holes in the lyrics was exchanged to SD party leader Jimmie Åkesson.
A rare but not an unpleasant experience. We were all 16 again, Hilarious!

Tequila Girls
Tequila Girls have been around forever. In fact I had to ask if they were the
same band as I saw a million years ago. Well almost, some new members and some
old.
I can´t remember when I last saw them but it must been in the late 80ies.
They used to be such a band that was around when the Nomads roamed at the clubs of Stockholm.
Back then they were one of some folk/rock/punk bands. A kind of Dropkick
Murphy´s, Flogging Molly before those bands were invented. And if I don´t got
it wrong I think I had some bad not band related memories from seing them the first itme in the mid 80ies, chick
trouble or something I think. But that can also be wrong, don´t really remember.
Tequila Girls, a band that only contains men, did their thing like they use to
do out in Europe.
That they even appeared in Stockholm was a rare thing. And to be honest I think
I would rather seen this on a much bigger stage with a huge audience. Because
that was the feeling of it. This was a big concert in many ways. The energy,
the eye catching energetic singer/lead guitarist, Totte, put on was amazing. The
band a whole was skilled and tight, even if they complained that they did some mistakes,
it was nothing that stood in the way for the greatness of it all. The Hypnotic
power of the performance of the song “Wake Up” was something magical, a song
that is more of a bit of old school Swedish progg rock than punk.
You might get fooled by the fact that they play rather slow for the punk genre.
But that was just an illusion. The intensity of it was so amazing that it would
probably take the piss out of any screaming hard core band. The concert as a whole was something that stood out as one of, to date, best
performances I seen this year.

Statement!

I started this blog to cover Punk all over the globe. Look apon it as a blog fanzine. There will be reviews, interviews, videos, art, consumer tests, DIY stuff, rants and drunken ramble. And possible shamlessly self promotion of my own photos and music.

Mostly I will cover the Stockholm and Swedish scene but also exiting places far away. Ill do this in English because I believe that Punk is a global thing and the internet makes people get together.

Ive been into punk since the 1970ies, I dont have an exact date when it came to me but to me punk in the late seventies was the most exiting thing back then. And in some ways it still is, punk to me is a street revue a colorful way to make art to be a living part of ones life. Not always though. Sometimes punk can be dull, commercialized and predictive to a point where it just not fun.

Since Ive been around for a while its possible there will be some history lessons as well. But I dont give a shit about embarrasing genre limitations, who is the purest punk or biggest dickassholescumbag. Those narrow minded activities is just degrading to the one that say it. So I will cover some Metal, Kraut Rock, Prog Rock, Ska, Synth, Electro, Reggae, Politics and Contemporary Art as well. Just it have a punky wibe with it.